What is the origin of hurricane naming?

The origin of hurricane naming is that many years of practice have shown that giving a short and distinctive name to a hurricane is faster and less prone to mistakes in practical applications (such as writing and language communication) than using its latitude and longitude to represent a hurricane.

It is very important to give different, distinctive and short names to different hurricanes for the exchange of detailed information about hurricanes among stations, sub-airports, coastal reference stations and ships at sea distributed in different places.

When two or more hurricanes occur at the same time, using names to represent hurricanes also greatly reduces unnecessary confusion. For example, one hurricane is moving slowly towards the Gulf of Mexico, while another hurricane may be moving rapidly along the Atlantic coast.

In the past, when broadcasting storm information, radio stations often confused hurricanes located hundreds of kilometers away with hurricanes ahead, and mistakenly used them to release early warning information. Therefore, it is very important to give hurricanes a simple and memorable human name.

Extended data

Typhoons and hurricanes are tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere.

The so-called "typhoon" and the so-called "hurricane" actually belong to tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere, just because they produce different sea areas and people in different countries have different names.

In the northern hemisphere, cyclones generated on the ocean surface east of the international solar boundary line to Greenwich meridian are called hurricanes, while tropical cyclones generated on the ocean surface west of the international solar boundary line are called typhoons.